Chris Vogel

The visitor's area of Men's Central Jail near Downtown LA is looking more and more like a scary place. Earlier this year, we brought you the story of Gabriel Carrillo, who claims he was visiting his younger brother when he was thrown into a refrigerator and beaten by sheriff's deputies......

She's 32, single, and one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" working on DC's Capitol Hill. She can also probably kick your ass. She is LA native Amelia Wang, chief of staff for Rep. Judy Chu, and described by The Hill newspaper in their annual list as "cheerful, gracious, winsome......

Like many people searching for alcohol addiction treatment, Danette Elliott turned to the Internet, where she found a site offering to help locate the "best drug rehab." The service recommended a program at the Narconon Vista Bay facility near Santa Cruz, trumpeting its effectiveness. According to Elliott, she was never......

The ACLU today officially asked District Attorney Steve Cooley to leash his hounds and halt the prosecution of a man who was allegedly beaten by sheriff's deputies in plain view of the ACLU jail monitor. On January 24, Esther Lim of the ACLU, one of a select few who have......

Fiscal responsibility. It is the mantra of the Tea Party. One of its "core values." So it is of particular interest that the Venetian Casino Resort in Las Vegas has just sued a Tea Party group for allegedly ducking out on a more than $600,000 tab......

A group of pissed off doctors in L.A. are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to clamp down on smog. In November 1990, the South Coast Air Basin region, which stretches from Malibu to Laguna Niguel, was given the worst possible rating of "extreme" with......

"Knuckles Capone" and "Murderface" are names that made the list this year. No, it's not a registry of LA gangsters, or possibly Dick Tracy villains. The annual top 10 list of the most unusual cat and dog names of 2011 is finally out, and if you get a kick out......

From cocaine and PCP to guns and illegal driver's licenses - the Chosen Few Motorcycle Club had their hand in it all. The mostly African-American band of motorcycling enthusiasts, formed in LA in 1959, apparently had much more than big engines and leather jackets on their mind, and were recently......

What's a lady gotta do to get off a cruise ship? That's a question Eunice Gayle must have asked more than once, as she desperately tried to seek an emergency blood transfusion while aboard a Princess cruise line voyage through the Caribbean. Stricken with complications from sickle cell anemia, Gayle......